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Originally Posted by tirsales
Of course - still: Amazon aims for a monopolization of this market (otherwise they wouldn't have used a closed format). And this is a bad thing.
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Sure, any company does (unless they think it entirely unfeasible). That said, I'd prefer it if they adopt ePub over Mobi, as the format sucks less (and will be readable forever), doesn't exclude other platforms, etc. But as long as some of those retail companies have digital versions from which they can brew those "sold" versions I expect we won't have too much of a problem.
But it's only a bad thing if other players don't jump in (and there has to be more interest once companies start noticing that there's money to be made there (like sony might have). But I expect that once other readers become bigger, they'll have to offer books to them as well, in order to keep those people as customers.
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Oh yes. AFAIK and IIRC the judge stated that he actually is a member of those consortia, but that this has not influenced his decision.
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Right. That's going to convince just about everybody, especially because it wasn't known beforehand.